Improvement in cultivators



J. W. JESSOP.

Cultivtor.

' Patented Dec. 29,18'68.,

nite

Mama

K/fes J. W.- JEssoP, oF HARvEY-SBURG, o'HIo.

Letters Patent No. 85,387, date December 29, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

I The Scheule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the 'samef To all whom tt mel/y concert.

Be it known that I, J. W. JEssOP, of Harveysbm'g, in the oounty of Warren, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful I-mprovement in Cultivators and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,-which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming'part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a Vertical longitudinal section of my im: proved cultivator, taken through the line a: a c, fig. 2.

Figure 2 is a top or plan view of the same. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Myinvention has for its object to furnish an improvedv A, at such a distance in front of the cross-beam B, that the plows, in Operating, will, not iuterfere with each other. L

To the cross-beams B and G, 'at or near their ends, are attahed the standards D, having mould-board plows, E, made in substantially the manner shown in the drawings. v

When used for cultivating very smallzcorn, the forward plows are made withoutthe rearwardly-projecting wings e', so as not to cover the corn with the soil.

The standards D are detachably secured to the crossbeams B and C, so that they maybe readily shifted from -one side of the machine to theother, according as it is desired to turn the soil to` or from the corn.-

F are guard-plates, attached to' and suspen'ded from the projecting ends of the arms G, the other ends of which are attached to the forward standards D, as shown in figs. 1 and 2.

The guard-plates F are suspended in' such a positionthat they may pass along upon each side of the plants, and prevent said plants, When small, from being covered or injured by having soil thrown against or upon them by the forward plows.

vH are beams, removably at taehed to the endsof the cross-beams B and O, and the rear ends of which pro- By shiftng the beams H, with their standards and i plows, from one side of the machine to the other, the soil may be turned in either' direction, as may be desired.

The beams H, with their standardsl and plows E, are designed for use in covering Wheat, and do-not require to be used in cultivating corn.

L are the handles, the forward ends` of which 'are pivoted to the forward cross-beams C, at points about equally distant fiom the centre and ends of said crossbeam.

' The rear parts of the handles L are detachably secured to the rear cross-beam B, -by bolts or equivalent detachable means, as shown in figs. 1 and 2, so that the said handles L may be adj usted in an iuclined positiou,

as shown in fig. 2, when plowing corn, enabling the plowman to walk upon one or the other side of the row being cultivated, as may be desired.

VVhen covering wheat, thejhandles L may be ad-` jnsted in positions. parallel 4with the line of draught, enabling the driver to walk directly in the rear of the' central part of the machine. r

The plows E are made in about the formand manner shown in figs. 1 and 2; that is to say, they are made` with a sharp point, and with their lower or horizontal edge longand inclined forward, so as to cut oif the 'Weeds or grass thatmay be growing between the rows at the same time that it raise`s the soil, which said soil is moved laterally, and turned over, either toward or from the rows, according as the said plows are adjusted.

I 'am aware that adjustable beams H and standards D are npt in themselves new, and I do not therefore claim them; but

What I do claim as new, and desire to Secure by Letters Patent, is-

The provision, in a cnltivator, of the adjustable long beams H, provided. with mould-plows, cross-beams f and C, and standards D, also providedwith plows, when o the several parts-berem named, are constructed, combined, and arranged, as he'rein set forth, for the purpose specified.

' Witnesses: J. W. JESSOP.

IsA'Ao H. ANTRAM, A.- T. SABm.v 

